Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-10-21
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
The population of Island County

Walla Walla to London the present t
year.
1t is expected that the canal be-
tween Lakes Union and Washington
will be completed within month.
The foundation walls of the Boston
Block in Seattle will be seven feet
thick built of Bellingham Bay stone.
The Port Angeles colony people are
supplying themselves with meat from
the herds of mammoth elk that range
in the Olympic mountains.
Sksgit county has thirty-four resi-
dents who pay taxes on more than
S2o 900 worth of property each. The
largest taxpayer owns $57 ,261.
Only $500 feet of the Stampede tun-
mel remains to be bored, and that at
the present rate of speed will be COM
pleted by the first of May next.
A bridge over the Columbia river at
La Camas, the News says, can be
built for 100000, while at the most
feasible point below such a structure
would cost from one million to five
million dollars.
Toledo Pilot: The Eleventh An
nual Fair of the Lewis County Agri-
cultural Association, which occurred
last week, was as dismal failure as
the apathy of the people and bad
weather could make it.
VIM. James, farmer on WILDLY
Island, harvested from a ten-acre field
this year an average OF sixty bushels
of wheat per acre. He says that for
good reliable crops the Islands will
hold their own with any district in
the Territory.
The Centralia News wants Lewis,
Cowlitz, Chehalis and Thurston coun-
ties to combine in an agricultural as
soclation, put up permanent build
ings and hold a Western Wash
ington fruit, stock, and mechanics
fair each fall, with summer races.
w. F. Wallace, of Hallock, Mime
sofa, writing to the Oregonian, states
that he expects to start in few weeks
for Washington Territory with the in
tention of erecting cheese factory to
cost 81 900, and to use not less than
5000 pounds of milk per day, with
capacity of 10000 pounds.
At the close of the fiscal year the
Northern Pacific Company owned
2,2O2.3 miles of railroad, and operated
or controlled under leases or agree
ments 9OO.1 miles; the total mileage
owned and leased being 3,1O3.4, an in
crease of 1881 miles. The new main
line mileage is that of the Cascade di-
vision.
On the Blanchard railroad on the
Skagit, the cars are hauled up the
hill with teams, loaded and started
down the grade. 1t is said that a
mile and half minute or a speed of
ninety miles an hour, is attained going
down the grade. The track is stand
ard guage with steel rails, smooth and
in good condition.
A fireman named Bretz on one of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany's engines met with quite an ac-
cident at Wilkeson one day last week.
He was caught between the cars and
his right leg was madly mashed. The
man was taken to Ia
coma, and conveyed to the Puget
Sound College Hospital.
The kalama Adrocatc says: With a
good wagon road from Vancouver to
Toledo and the Sound, and railroad
from Yakima to this place, and a rail-
road from Vancouver to Olympia and
good wagon roads out to the govern
ment land, and Kalama will be
town OF no mean proportions yet.
Give us all at once; we can stand
them.
Seattle Times: 1t is only question
Of time, and short time ut that,
when the Puyallup, Duwamish, Sno-
and Skagit rivers will expert
ence the fate OF the larger streams of
the coast unless our Legislature shall
pass laws in regard to Puget Sound as
well as the Columbia river, giving q
close season of sufficient duration to
protect the salmon during their
spawning period.
1t is figured in the Walla Walla
Union that the freight on train load
of wheat from that city to Portland at
present rates would be 1925, and
that at least 1900 such trains would
be necessary to haul the grain crop of
the inland empire this year to mar
ket at tidewater, at a total freight
charge of Sc, Az, 800, sum represent
ing six per cent. upon a capital of
$4O,OOO,OOO.
j. NJ. Buckley, late Assistant Gen
eral Manager of the Western Divisions
OF the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany with headquarters at Tacoma,
has been appointed General Assistant
Manager in charge of the Eastern Di-
visions with headquarters at st. Paul.
He will be succeeded in Tacoma as
Assistant General Manager by S. r.
Ainslee, superintendent of several
eastern branches of the Northern Pa
cifc.